ST. JOHN: For word lovers, it's always fun to see what new words or phrases have become part of the public lexicon in the previous year. And Grant Barrett is the man to fill us in! He wrote the New ...

Dictionary.com has announced bluster as its 2012 Word of the Year. As far as words of the year go, this is an OK if not too terribly innovative one (sorry, guys), combining patterns weather (Sandy) ...

Merriam-Webster's most looked-up words of 2012 are socialism and capitalism. Traffic for the two words on Merriam-Webster's website doubled this year as the health care debate reached a fever pitch ...

NEW YORK — Thanks to the election, socialism and capitalism are forever wed as Merriam-Webster's most looked-up words of 2012. Traffic for the unlikely pair on the company's website about doubled this ...

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Ana Dinescu (Germany) Continuity. For me, the word of the last months and the keyword for the next period is: continuity. I want to continue the projects I started and to continue to dedicate a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Thanks to the election, socialism and capitalism are forever wed as Merriam-Webster's most looked-up words of 2012. Traffic for the unlikely pair on the company's website about doubled ...

I'm about to state the obvious here: We use a whole lot of words. In fact, Dr. Louann Brizendine, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California--San Francisco, figures that, the ...